Usha Harris
Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studi
Macquarie University
Australia
Biography
Usha Harris teaches in the International Communication discipline at Macquarie University. She gained her Master of Arts in International Communication and her PhD from Macquarie University. Her PhD (Transforming Images: Participatory Video and Social Change in Fiji) was an ethnographic study of the participatory video process with rural women in Fiji. Usha's use of communication technology for social inclusion has strongly informed her academic practice. As a researcher and practitioner of participatory media she has trained Pacific Island communities in Fiji. Vanuatu, Kiribati, and New Zealand in the use of participatory media and mobile technologies to raise awareness about environmental issues including climate change impacts and adaptation. Before her academic career Usha worked as a media professional for 15 years in Australia and Fiji as a television producer and journalist respectively. She was among a core team of media activists who campaigned for and set up Community Television Sydney (C31).
Research Interest
Environmental communication, communication for social change, participatory media focusing on process
Publications
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Aad G, Abbott B, Abdallah J, Abdelalim AA, Abdesselam A, Abdinov O, Abi B, Abolins M, Abramowicz H, Abreu H, Acerbi E. Measurement of underlying event characteristics using charged particles in p p collisions at s= 900 GeV and 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector. Physical Review D. 2011 May 31;83(11):112001.
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Ellinor PT, Lunetta KL, Albert CM, Glazer NL, Ritchie MD, Smith AV, Arking DE, Müller-Nurasyid M, Krijthe BP, Lubitz SA, Bis JC. Meta-analysis identifies six new susceptibility loci for atrial fibrillation. Nature genetics. 2012 Jun 1;44(6):670-5.
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Klionsky DJ, Abdelmohsen K, Abe A, Abedin MJ, Abeliovich H, Acevedo Arozena A, Adachi H, Adams CM, Adams PD, Adeli K, Adhihetty PJ. Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy. Autophagy. 2016 Jan 2;12(1):1-222.
